Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich

Presents Vladimir Lenin's significant written works on capitalism, communism, class consciousness, social democracy, revolution, and Marxism, including the complete "Imperialism, the Highest State of Capitalism" and "What Is to Be Done?" and sections from "The Development of Capitalism in Russia.".

Vladimir Lenin presents an overview of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' socialist program; Marx's philosophical, economic, and social teachings; and the components, sources, and historical development of Marxism.

A reprint of the early twentieth-century text in which Russian leader V. I. Lenin elaborates the principles upon which the Bolshevik, or Communist Party was founded.